AS:DE Prep — Tue May 12, 2026, 11:00–11:45 AM PT

With: Josh Weiss, Joe Sherman Zoom: stanford.zoom.us/j/92599859829 Heads-up: Strategic Huddle is at 2pm today (Josh, Joe, Cathy, Reuben) — use AS:DE to land any items you want to surface there with cleaner framing.

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What’s New Since Last AS:DE (Tue May 5)

Lane Young / Alexander Dawson — thread is cold ❄️

• Christine made the intro Apr 17. Tue May 5 call was rescheduled to Fri May 8, then never happened. Lane has gone radio silent — no contact since the intro.
• No notes to file, no proposal to draft, no cost-sheet pressure on Josh tied to Lane. Don’t carry forward as a live thread.
• If Lane re-engages, that’s a new event worth flagging.

Build-a-Bot multilingual — SHIPPED

• German confirmed by Christian Haake (NLQ); Spanish/French/English already live. Push went out.
• Only Chinese still pending native-speaker verification.

Lakshmi Balasubramanian (Chris Lemons lab) — demo confirmed Thu 1:30pm

• Josh teed up Fri May 8 (“can you show Lakshmi Build-a-Bot and FlashLab?”). Lakshmi confirmed Thu 1:30pm Zoom this morning.
• Was on action list as “wait for Josh intro” — now active.

DCI June 5 Flash Lab (50 people) — Josh attending

• Josh confirmed Fri attendance. Reuben asked about night-before logistics; awaiting reply. Use AS:DE to lock that down or punt to 1:1.

Other live threads

• SofIA — security doc to Sergio + Micaela still pending. Apr 30 + May 7 sessions; May 7 cancelled by sick day. Coding session continues.
• AS one-pager + tear sheet — sent to Darcy May 11 with cost sheet; Josh CC’d. Awaiting Darcy feedback. Josh may weigh in via the thread.
• Cyan DeVeaux intro chain — 6 intros open (Kerns, Tech Interactive, Brian Brown, Tim/Tammin, Cathy Chase) + recurring check-ins. Rolled forward 3 weeks now. Joe has Tech Interactive ask. Surface if Joe is in the room.
• Q-Centered Therapy / SoM EdTech (Peter Nguyen) — Wed May 6 sync happened. Status update if Josh wants one.

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Asks for Josh

1. Flash Lab website refresh — Apr 30 ask, still open. Greg’s Tinkery session + Tue’s “Flash Lab demand increasing” gave field signal. Punt to 1:1 if not in AS:DE scope.
2. DCI June 5 night-before logistics — pinned in Slack Fri morning.
3. ISTE Live 2026 registration — Thu 1:1 is the decision moment Josh flagged. Quick heads-up that you’ll come with a leaning.

(Cost sheet is in Darcy’s thread with Josh CC’d — feedback may come there. No need to chase separately.)

Asks for Joe

1. Tech Interactive contact card for Cyan DeVeaux — both of you assigned, no movement.
2. Airtable adds — two new records he flagged last week (Learning Through Creation / Other Projects). Glance/confirm.
3. Quoted Impact backlog — sofIA, Dan/Josh Q2, Shaping the Narrative, Efface launch, Cathy book chapter still need to land. Cards on the table if it’s slipping.

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Capacity Notes (Cards on the Table)

• Mon was light (sick-day recovery + dentist) — wasn’t a productivity day. Tue is the heavy one; Wed has a personal/Stanford conflict to resolve at 12pm.
• Cyan intro chain has been stalling 3 weeks. Either commit to two intros this week or formally pause and tell her.
• Strategic Huddle prep doc was a goal yesterday, didn’t happen. Going in this afternoon with verbal framing only.

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Heads-Up for Strategic Huddle (2pm)

Items Reuben plans to surface at 2pm:

1. CRISPRkit handoff status (open question for Cathy)
2. SofIA — what continues while Joe is OOO (when?)
3. Vibe-coded MVP support flag — how we triage requests like that going forward
4. Possibly the seed grant Thought Leadership application — flag as personal-bandwidth touchpoint, not a project ask

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Things to File After AS:DE

• Reply to Lakshmi confirming Thu 1:30pm + send calendar invite
• File today’s AS:DE notes → meetings/running-notes.md (heading: ## AS:DE (May 12, 2026))